To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint

The exhausted singer collapsed onstage and had to be taken to the hospital.

Origin: From collapsus (past participle of collabi)

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Collapse(verb)

to fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses

Collapse(verb)

to fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance

Collapse(noun)

a falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel

Collapse(noun)

a sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown

Collapse(noun)

extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance

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Collapse

kol-aps′, n. a falling away or breaking down: any sudden or complete breakdown or prostration.—v.i. to fall together, to contract: to fall or break down: to go to ruin: to lose heart.—adj.Collaps′ible, capable of collapsing. [L. collapsus—col, together, and labi, lapsus, to slide or fall.]

I warn that we are going are going towards collapse if matters continue, frankly, I have not and will not be a partner in this collapse. Let all officials and political forces bear their responsibilities.

I do not agree with the prophets of doom who are predicting the socioeconomic collapse of the United States. Make no mistake, US will recover. The road to recovery is rocky with potential setbacks, and we have to pay for our mistakes like everyone else.

Apparently someone was counting on some sort of collapse, no collapse happened. The Russian economy is easily overcoming these artificial barriers ... The peak of (debt) payments has passed. If someone counted on causing some kind of collapse, nothing came of it.